I receive a lot of traffic to my post about HTTP Basic Authentication in Apache CXF. I decided to do a followup to that post to address some of the comments.
I have never tried to use this with Mule but if someone has, please let me know so I can update this post.
I have uploaded the Java code for the BasicAuthAuthorizationInterceptor class. There are a few changes over the original version. This one includes a Map of authorized users and their corresponding passwords. I believe the original example I created was for Apache CXF 2.0. This version works with Apache CXF 2.1.1.
In the original post, I also did not include a sample of how to use this code in a real application. The following section shows a sample of how to define the security interceptor and enable it on a simple endpoint.